Ascents as Hang dog as trad by Chris Harper

Doh. Not so many friendly stemming ledges on this one. Lacked speed and commitment, moves aren't too hard.

Pulled on a cam while struggling in the crack.

Harder than it looks! Hands aren't bad, but had trouble finding good feet to get established in the crack.

One sit near the bottom.

Lacked fight on the painful jams down low, found a laybacking option up top to avoid the shallow jams.

Just missed getting it clean after hanging in there for a fiddly nut tool cam retrieval. Very inspiring!

Spent way too long fiddling with gear and came off the upper crux.

Learning to trust smaller edges. A bit more grit and I would have had it first shot, but was happy to play around a bit more.

Hard work to feed gear into the slots while your hands are in them and a bit short to go for it without good gear!

Lost focus mid way up and had a fall. Pretty stoked to get the rest clean. Good quality sustained slabbing.

Feeling weak after taking a beating on Parallax.

Linked P3&4 of El Suprimo into the top pitch of Lebensraum. Sensational face climbing in the bottom pitch with a difficult crux. The top pitch is an absolutely stellar clip up arete. Fell off the final move in fast fading light.

After trying a couple of different approaches i can see how this goes. Could be 22.

Jamming through the sizes from tight tips to hands. Short but packs a punch!

First pitch gave me hell but got up the second clean. Came off the dyno to the tree and had lots of trouble with the thin hands crack. Very neat technical rising traverse on the second pitch with lots of small gear.

Fun little climb. (First day post knee surgery)

Clean after a sit getting off the ground.

What a ripper! Clean apart from a sit to retrieve a booty link cam. Score!!

P2: Tag teamed with Steve to lead the gear in. Best effort was 2 rests + a hang to experiment with the sequence to the arete.

Lead the gear into the top half this time. Came off right at the top of the section with bad feet on my lead attempt. Better to leave the rope in the P1 gear for P2 - lighter to pull up when clipping.

Crappy rock after the ledge, wet up top and desperate near the top! Should have warmed up on Return to Gariwerd instead!

One rest up top. Could be 23.

Great line, unlocks nicely with some good technique. Fell of just short of the jug at the top of the crux.

What a route! Fell off near the top when i started thinking more about the fall than the climbing.

Made it to the anchors this time, fair way from sending tho.

Great line! Features pop up and disappear perfectly for a sustained yet varied climb. One rest on P2 not realising i was meant to keep traversing left, P3 was very easy at the grade.

What a climb! Stuffed around trying to find a rest before the crux and ended up taking a sit to de-pump. Glad I did as I would definitely have come on the traverse. Should be an easy redpoint.

Had a really good flash attempt but then fluffed my red point. Will have to come back for another shot.

Dogged a lap to warm up. Felt fairly straight forward apart from the crux move.

P1: Flash, P2: Dog. Gave it a run while the gear was on. Great climbing! Lacked commitment on P2 and opted for a sit. Turns out the gear was mistakenly rigged for a super direct (and super hard) finish so had an exciting runout to the top!

Whipped off climbing over the bulge.

Back to crack climbing school for me!

Every bit 23. A couple of falls.

Climbed most of it with some sitting on the rope to save my injured finger. Would love to come back and lead it some day.

Drop tested an orange totem cam in the chalked pocket and it held without issue. Plus a little tug on some gear mid way to save me from pulling too hard.

Attempted ground up placing gear on lead. Had a fair few sits but climbed all the moves cleanly, linking a good section between the lower crux and the top of the peapod.

Lost the will to fight and had a flop onto the rope on P2. Pretty gnarly! Onsight P3, more like 19/20?